Hi Guys, Thanks for all the replies. I resolved this problem yesterday night. There are some couple of problems. It seems the initrd cpio archive is not well formatted. I saw some errors when I am unarchiving it to different dir for test purpose. It saw some device files under /dev are not getting created. I am not sure why there are errors, but when I used the following command "find . | cpio --quiet -H newc -o | gzip -9 -n > /boot/imagefile.img" to make cpio archive of initrd, I do not see any errors in creating device files, when I unarchive it. The other erorr is, I have to change /etc/fstab config to tell which device should be considered to mount as root. There was a wrong entry "/dev/root", this device do not exist in initrd image and grub do not create nor attach initrd contents to /dev/root. Grub creates /dev/ram0 or /dev/ram or /dev/initrd and attaches initrd contents to this device. Kernel then reads contents from one of these devices as root fs. After making these modifications, I saw grub able to boot the kernel with initrd, Now the current problem is, I am stuck on, unable to get console. I got stuck after sshd (I want dropbear daemon on my machine), it seems sshd got started, but no prompt is displayed. I think I should get console control. Any ideas. Thanks in advance. Regards, Sri. On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi..... > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Sri Ram Vemulpali > <sri.ram.gmu06@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I compiled my own kernel image with uclibc cross tool chain for x86 >> i686 arch. I am using grub as boot loader. >> >> these are the following parameters I am giving. >> >> kernel /bzImage ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet init=/sbin/init >> initrd /initrd.img -----> this is cpio image of filesystem structure >> with needed modules and lib >> >> When I select at grub options to boot the kernel after reading bzImage >> grub proceeds to initrd and stuck at initrd. > > zero output? I guess you must see output, even a bit....so, can you > post as much as you can see from the display? > > if not, we're really shooting in the dark here... > > > -- > regards, > > Mulyadi Santosa > Freelance Linux trainer and consultant > > blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com > training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com -- Regards, Sri. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
